Come on down, all you ghouls and ghosts, to
Rue Morgue magazine's annual
Festival of Fear and
Fan Expo, Canada's biggest Fan Event, this weekend, Aug 22-24 at t Toronto's Metro Convention Centre.
Besides the special guests including WES CRAVEN (Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street), TOBE HOOPER (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), SID HAIG (House of 1000 Corpses), BRAD DOURIF (Child's Play), RUGGERO DEODATO (Cannibal Holocaust), TURA SATANA (Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), JOHN SAXON (Black Christmas) and Linnea Quigley (Return of the Living Dead), check out the TIFF 08 MIDNIGHT MADNESS booth, where we will be running trailers for this year's line-up.
AND!!! As a bonus, we will be SELLING single tickets for all the Ryerson MIDNIGHT MADNESS shows! Be sure to get your seat to some of the hottest films at this year's Festival, before they go on sale to the general public on September 3, 2008. Tickets are $19.29. We will also be selling The Midnight Madness Package which gets you a single ticket for each screening. It is $156.51, and available to students and seniors for $100 (prices do not include GST, building fund fee and service charges). Details on the films including the Ryerson screening dates can be found here.
DON'T BE DISAPPOINTED ? buy your tickets in advance and make the most of the Festival!
The event runs Friday, 4-9PM, Saturday, 10AM-9PM, and Sunday, 11AM-6PM. Tickets and passes available in advance and at the door. Complete details for the Festival of Fear and the Sci-Fi, Anime, Comic Book and Gaming Expos, can be found here.
Lots of other fun booths for other cool folks like the generous sponsors of Midnight Madness, Space and Maple Pictures, Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Vagrancy Films, Suspect Video, Troma's Lloyd Kaufman, and artists Kagan McLeod (Infinite Kung Fu), Attila Adorjany, Rob Coughler, Ray Fawkes, Joseph O'Brien, Ramon Perez, Cameron Stewart, Steve Manale, and more!
Check out the floor plan and other exhibitors.
Here is a little vid that I put together of our adventure there last year. Hope to see you there! Say hello and let me know if you read this!